Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole

Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-05-21

Apple Computer on Friday issued a patch for a security hole in Mac OS X that could have allowed hackers to take over vulnerable machines, but the company went out of its way to downplay the importance of the bug.

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Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole 2004-05-23
Anonymous (1 replies)

I bought my first PC three weeks ago. I currently own three other Apple computers.

Within 5 minutes (the time it took me to set up my firewall), I had four infections on my Windows XP computer.

I have NEVER had an infection on any of my Apple computers since 1995!! I have never lost data on ...

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Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole 2004-05-25
Ed

I thought a theory became fact once it was proven? Or do benign exploit scripts not count as proof?...

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Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole 2004-05-27
Anonymous

If the world were reversed and Mac OS was the world dominant OS then im sure that it would be a windows user making that comment. Security through obscurity doesnt mean your secure just that no one can be bothered to write malware for such a small return you dont get famous because a few hundred mac...

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